There was a Kevin Costner movie a while ago titled Waterworld that was set in the future when the polar ice caps had melted and drowned our world as we know it. The movie set in the future had a world without land and the survivors lived in ships and searched for land so they could start afresh and rebuild their lives. Of course they did find land in the ending of the movie, but come to think of it what if it really happened and there was no more land on this earth and the seas covered it entirely.
This is a thought that seems to have occurred to award-winning Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut for he has gone about and concept designed floating cities that would house 50,000 people for starters and float on water all the time. The people on it would live and work inside the floating city itself and the floating city would be floating all the time. The floating cities would run on renewable energy. The name given to this concept designed floating cities, Lilypad, since they are based on the design of a lilypad. The idea behind these cities is to provide housing to climate change refuges since experts feel that many islands and cities will be lost and completely submerged in the future due to the rising tides. It seems cities like New York, Tokyo and London are on the hit list and could disappear underwater. The solution, enter the Lilypad which will house 50,000 inhabitants and function as a self sustainable and fully functional home. It will have a lake right in its center to collect and harvest rainwater and the Lilypad itself would be surrounded by mountains on the outside to provide a different view from the sea to its inhabitants. The Lilypad home will not have roads or any vehicles and it will be covered with plants all over according to the architect Vincent Callebaut. Since it’s meant to be eco friendly and will run on renewable energy, it will only float and move about with the currents and movement of the seas themselves.
Are you ready to move in? Well you will have to wait a while since Vincent Callebaut has no idea himself how much it will cost to build such a floating world. Let’s hope they are built soon and we all get to experience them since they look great in the pictures. I for one am ready to move in.
wow :O thats stunningly amazing
Indeed it is Narendra. The concept itself is so out of the world. Imagine you are floating in such a moving home always. Life would be so different from what we know.
sorry to burst anyone’s bubble but since this thing only floats with the current, what if it found land that wasn’t fully submerged? Or hit under water mountains? Did anyone think what would happen if there was a hurricane, how does this thing stabilize itself? I would be afraid to live on something like that for fear of it going down too. I guess there are still a lot of kinks to work out of it. Other then that it’s kinda cool.